BEAUTIFUL AND EMPTY REPLICANT

Some movies are just not to be touched, revamped and continued, since they represent cult features that changed cinematography, redefined entire genres and influenced the entire pop culture.

One of those revolutionary stories and unbeaten representations of the future is the Phillip K. Dick’s and Ridley Scott’s masterpiece SF-noir about the robots and artificial intelligence as the ultimate frontier of mankind, ''Blade Runner''.

Unlike the many similar contemporary cash driven desires to continue the story and finally give some of the much needed answers to the 80s classics, the production team for „Blade Runner: 2049” lead by the creator of the original, Ridley Scott, did their homework and did it well.

They chose one of the best directors in Hollywood right now, Dennis Villeneuve and casted one of the more stellar crews in recent history of SF making (Gosling, Wright, Leto and of course, Harrison Ford).

The visual result was just stunning, since gifted director meticulously solved every single detail in each scene. Transferring the legendary atmosphere of the first part of the (unfortunately) saga was just done with flying colors and that deserves every appraisal.

However, this is where the good things top and give way to the cancer that’s eating 21st century Hollywood.

Lame scripts.

Just to be clear, the original „Blade Runner” was probably the weakest script of all the Top 10 movies of all times it rightfully belongs to, but was also the revolutionary insight into the future, offering some of the most intriguing and so exploited concepts that followed it.

„Blade Runner: 2049” doesn’t have any of those things, since it offers neither new concepts, neither viable characters, nor acting or even some decent answers. It just wanders off, not showing any signs of life and driving the stellar crew into the average, while making the script look blunt and unfinished.

„Blade Runner: 2049” is a beautiful replicant of the original movie, with some great camera, color, production and light, but also with a mediocre script unworthy of the name it continues.

BLADE RUNNER 2049 – 5/10

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PUSHING THE LIMITS

Will Michael Bay ever let go of one of the most famous child’s franchises of the ’80s, the one about the alien robots disguising into common objects?

If there were some doubts, after the last installment of testosterone and cash driven high end production about the Autobots and Decepticons, „The Last Knight”, now there isn’t any.

Michael Bay will film Transformers until his death. The story won’t matter any more, linking Stonehendge, submarines, wizard Merlin and his Knights of the Round table with Dynobots and dragon robots spitting fire while the Earth is being plowed by gigantic... turfs falling from the sky. Budget will keep rising, attracting such acting giants as Sir Anthony Hopkins. Effects will become more and more diverse, confusing and irrelevant.

None of this will matter, since there will be more and more retarded stories about Transformers in the years to come, attracting the numbed audience just going into the theaters from the habit or because of the childhood memories.

„The Last Knight” is the most spectacular and most retarded of all the sequels in „Transfomers” saga.

TRANSFORMERS: THE LAST KNIGHT – 2/10

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INTRO FOR A VIDEO GAME

Mangas and computer games can rarely be a decent material for a movie script and „Ghost in the shell” isn’t one of them, although it tries really hard to give us an explanation of the half robots-half men in the distant future.

Scarlett Johansson is there to attract the viewers, and the CGI is decently used. However, the script is kinda slow, while offering little explanation in this hugely stretched intro into a whole franchise.

„Ghost in the shell” is the material for a computer game/manga fans and not many more.

GHOST IN THE SHELL – 3/10

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